Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Maybe not, presumably Moyes used some flowery language when West Ham were denied a penalty after McBurnie had scored. 🤬

The biggest disgrace wasn't that a red card wasn't dished out... we didn't even get a **** free kick! No foul was given! That's the bigger crime, imo. Hard to argue what colour card should have been given when the ref, and VAR of course, didn't even think it was a free. WTF like??

I had him at 10/1 for a brace today so fair to say I agree. 😀

You forgot Matip.

Since signing,Nunez has more goals for us,than ,saka, martinelli or jesus have for arsenal and he's still just 24,,younger then mo or mane were when signed,plus he never stops...

He's learning quick

Hugely impressed with Bradley. His confidence is flowing now and performances against Martinelli and yesterday should not be a surprise after his award of player of the season for Bolton last year. His bravery, energy up and down the wing and excellent 1:1 defensive skills reminds me of Robertson. But his pace, change of direction, intelligence and interplay with others is already equivalent to Robbo imo (which makes his ceiling higher than the Sistine chapel). He will get a lot of crossing opportunities, staying back with Darwin to work on that could be useful. It's so much more satisfying to see a young lad come through, and an Irish lad too, fantastic.

Strange he doesn't play for the Republic, he's from a very nationalist community in the north. Then again the younger generation are increasingly seeing past this crap and the lad probably just wants to play football.

yesterday was the first time I properly entertained the idea that we could win the league.

that might sound ludicrous to some, but with a brand new midfield, and not being quite sure how 'back' Virgil is, or how Konate could kick on, or how Gomez would fare this season when we needed to lean heavily on him, I just didn't buy the idea that we could keep pace. but yesterday has slightly changed my perception, and it's because of the form of our defence.

they looked properly solid yesterday. keep that up, and anything is possible.

also, the non-red was not the controversial one from yesterday.

the one the focus should be on is the Jota penalty that wasn't. utterly mind-boggling.

Ya that had the potential to for big slip up yesterday, I said after "oh maybe we can do this". I expect City to win every game until they come to Anfield, we need to do the same and beat City. Do that and I will start to believe, until then I still rate our chances low.

As strange as this sounds, Robbo will have a small bit of climatizing to do when he returns to the team. And hopefully he is ready to return very soon as he is a big asset with providing width, keeping intensity, all round solidity.

He has only played 1 Liverpool game since September. At that time, the defensive unit was not the same as what it is now, and had only kept 1 CS in 8 PL games. They had improved on last season, but it wasn't just there yet with a couple of goals being conceded when they should really have been cleared up. Not major issues but minor ones that have been worked on, since Robbo has been injured.

There was also a few questions around his new LCB role, and did it really suit him while Trent inverted. That inverting tactic seems to be 'horses for courses' now though so we might see a return to his swashbuckling ways, rather than the 3rd defender. The defense is back to more of a 2 man defense rather than a 3 man defense.

And well, also cos of Gomez. Do I need to say much? Having a great season filling in anywhere and everywhere in defense in many different roles. Old School RB, inverted RB, CB, LB, small bit of inverted LB. He doesn't deserve to lose a starting place in the team but I would imagine he would go into RB if Robbo is back before Trent is.

Liverpool have played 32 games this season, Robbo has only played 8.

Also, to win the last 3 games, with the sheer number of players injured / unavailable is ridiculously good. Should be spoken about a lot more IMO.

This is the season overall so far

Pretty decent bit of performance too, most footballers are bloody woeful, don't even make convincing humans.

Mo was better than usual in his recent Vodafone Afcon one too.

Until now, I don’t recall any NI player making a full appearance for us in my time following the club, near 50 years now. Jim Magilton & Ryan McLaughlin were on our books but never played. Perhaps I’ve forgotten someone?

Strange given the number of Scots, Republic of Ireland & Welsh players we’ve had.

I think Owen Beck will get an opportunity at left back in the next few weeks, probably in the FA Cup. He was impressive in his earlier loan spell at Dundee and he wasn't brought back to simply make up the numbers in training. If he takes the opportunity to show he's ready to play in the team then Tsimikas can be moved on in the summer and it'll free up another non-homegrown spot in the squad.

There's no need for Robertson to over do it upon his return, we can afford to ease him back in while building his match fitness in the period after the Arsenal game.

That would be good, I couldn't think of a worse place to go after the City match. Those City games take on a life of their own, and usually there's a massive coming down in performance and energy levels the following week. especially after a poor result.

Whilst I agree about Luton and United, to stay sane I think you have to think about them as one side of a coin that has the likes of Newcastle away and Fulham at home on the other. We have dropped some annoying points, but we've rescued points from the fire more often than we've dropped them

(That being said, I don't apply the same zen philosophy when I think about the points dropped at Spurs. If they turn out to be the difference I'll be apoplectic)

You'll forgive been pesimistic or atleast very cautiously optimistic, when we accumulated 92 and 97 points, missing out on the league on both ocassions by 1 point. City are the treble champions, won the league 3 times in a row. While I didn't believe the idea last season that we were finished, this position is entirely unexpected.

I have basically zero doubt City will drop a point before March as their fixtures are just piss easy - but if we can keep our noses ahead come March 1st, then I think we have a chance. That ~month from March 2nd onwards is a real test for them - Man Utd, Liverpool, Brighton, Arsenal, Villa. With the CL kicking off again around then too, there's definitely a bit of hope there.

A lot of football to play, but not a lot of league games. One by one will tick them off, we have the advantage of playing City at home, that's big.

You just know we will lose out by a point again this season. That Spurs VAR f**k up will rear its ugly head come May!

Just thought i'd post a link to a channel i've been watching for a few months now, judging by his subscriber count he's flying under the radar i think.

Anyway great channel, love the editing.

How long is Ederson out for city? Also an important factor going forward.